Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Proverbs 4:7
The main thing, is to keep the main thing, the main thing.
This phrase was apparently by Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
It’s also a song I heard from a guy playing piano in a small church hall in North Carolina.
Stephen’s insight is that every goal has a “main thing”, a single success factor that is the linchpin of the entire enterprise. And success is simply identifying this “main thing” and organising your energy around keeping “the main thing, the main thing”.
The insight from Proverbs is that the Main Thing is wisdom. Wisdom is the principal thing…the main thing.
Put wisdom on centre stage, and remove everything that detracts from that.